SuSE 11.2 Security Update : PHP5 (SAT Patch Number 6440)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64104

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

PHP5 was updated with incremental fixes to the previous update.

- Additional unsafe cgi wrapper scripts are also fixed now. (CVE-2012-2335)

- Even more commandline option handling is filtered, which could lead to crashes of the php interpreter.
(CVE-2012-2336)

- heap-based buffer overflow in php's phar extension.
(CVE-2012-2386)

- The crypt() implementation ignored wide characters, leading to shorter effective password lengths. Note:
With this update applied affected passwords will no longer work and need to be set again. (CVE-2012-2143)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 6440.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761631

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=763814

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=766798

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2143.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2335.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2336.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2386.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64104

File Name: suse_11_apache2-mod_php53-120618.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-zlib, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:apache2-mod_php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-pspell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-suhosin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:php53-sysvsem

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2143, CVE-2012-2335, CVE-2012-2336, CVE-2012-2386